Acute STEMI care in the 2010s: What has the STREAM trial shown in reperfusing early cases and what should the next breakthrough be?

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 4305-4306

  Wong, Cheuk Kit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fibrinolysis; Phone ECG; Primary PCI; STEMI; STREAM

Indexed keywords

TENECTEPLASE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEATH; EARLY INTERVENTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART REINFARCTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MOBILE PHONE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SHOCK; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

FIBRINOLYSIS; PHONE ECG; PRIMARY PCI; STEMI; STREAM;

AGED; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION;

EID: 84886297949     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.04.188     Document Type: Article

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